Also - I'm pretty much looking at 3 hosts right now:

http://www.onsmart.net/linux.htm
http://www.planetxoops.com/
http://hostrocket.com

Preferably paying around $10 a month or less.

Any experience with these hosts, positive or negative? I know Planet XOOPS hosts this site, so I assume they're pretty darn good. I could get more bandwidth cheaper elsewhere, but I really don't know how much I need.

Quoting from another thread, but starting a new one so as not to drag the other thread totally off-topic:

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I am really hoping someone can give at least a rough answer to this question.

Also, what level of traffic is considered a high-traffic site, what level moderate, etc?

I'm maintaining a site for a friend who's away on a road-trip. She used to get traffic of about 1500 pages served a day; recently it's gone up to an average of 17000 pages served a day this month. (That's pages, not unique hits - since the site is down, I can't get into the logs to give more details.) That does not, to me, look like a huge amount of traffic, even though it's a big increase. However, the host says our site was crashing the server, and after some back and forth with tech support trying to sort it out (two weeks of it going down, being put back up, and crashing again), they have said they think we should find a new host because we have too much traffic and too many hits on the database from our main page for them to handle.

We have 64 blocks on the main page, most of them cached, and the most users I've ever seen online at one time was 40 or 50 (registered users and browsers). Usually it's more like 20. I notice that as I type this, Xoops.org has 148 users online.

So - I'm looking around at new hosts, considering Hostrocket.com right now. I'm basically looking for some feedback on whether I am right to think that my current host is being profoundly crap over this, and an idea of how much traffic is considered "high traffic" for Xoops. I am also fairly clueless when it comes to the more technical end of things, so I have no clue how to work out how much bandwidth I need per month (current host is unmetered traffic). Hostrocket's cheapest deal comes with more than enough space for us (the whole site is only abouot 25 mg), and 50gb bandwidth a month. The site will have a photo gallery at some point but at the moment it's mostly forums and text, no film clips or sound files or anything of that nature.

All and any feedback welcomed, thanks.

The site has apparently crashed the server again, as I'm now getting the 403 Forbidden error again, so apparently the SQL queries didn't fix things.

I'm told by users that it was running smoothly for 12 or 15 hours (whatever the XOOPS error last night was must have sorted itself out somehow, as no one did anything to it), but not while I was online, so I haven't been able to try the debug. I'm unable to use the control panel or access the account by FTP at the moment.

We did enable caching on the blocks a couple of days ago, but obviously it hasn't made a lot of difference!

I'm using phpwebhosting.com, who have Linux servers. Friend and I have had a number of sites hosted with them for a couple of years now, and in the past we've only had minor problems, with quick tech support response.

Although I haven't been able to run the debug, a friend was able to run it a few days ago, when the problems first became apparent, so I'm pasting what he said below. However, these were run before we enabled the caches.

"The queries execution varies from 5 to 13 seconds! And I think it should be less or equal to 1 sec even on a shared hosting environment and with all those users that are browsing.

"I just checked on a test site that I have - 64 queries plus 11 blocks (2 cached) takes about 0.5 - 0.6 to execute the queries. phantomoftheopera.com has almost the same number of queries/blocks."

Thanks ever so much. They are running the queries you suggested, and we've enabled various caches.

I'll also do the debug, as soon as the site is actually working again - all was fine for three or four hours, and then I just got this message:

This page cannot be displayed due to an internal error.

If you are the administrator of this site, please visit the XOOPS Troubleshooting Page for assistance.

Error [Xoops]: Unable to connect to database in file class/database/databasefactory.php line 34


I've reported this to them, but obviously they're not the XOOPS experts. Does this line give you any clues as to what's going wrong?

I'm not sure which is the most appropriate forum to post this in, so sorry if I've picked the wrong one.

I'm having some problems with my XOOPS site, and am hoping someone here might have some useful suggestions. I'm running XOOPS 2.0.7.3

The site is athttp://www.phantomoftheopera.com/ - if it's up when you see this, because it keeps crashing the web host's server and being switched off.

It was pretty much fine until I upgraded from NewBB 1 to NewBB 2, two or three weeks ago (which I had to do in order to have IP addresses displayed to me, to deal with an abusive poster). Then the site became very, very slow, and eventually crashed.

First time I wrote to tech support on it, they said "I would make sure that the new forum module has proper indexing on the tables. If you are doing a lot of queries, esp. on tables that don't have proper indexes things can become very, very slow."

Unfortunately I don't know databases at all so I've no idea how to find out whether it has proper indexing or not (definitely a newbie when it comes to php and MySQL), but it's the same module hundreds of other sites are using.

Today they said:

"From taking a quick look at your site, my guess is that you have too many database hits to the main page. Every time somebody loads your main page it is probably doing a lot of queries. queries for all the news items, the forum threads, the poll, etc."

So I've switched off a few of the less important threads from the main page. The forums are really the main point of the site though, and it doesn't seem as if most people have a problem running XOOPS with most recent forum posts, top 5 news items, and a poll on the front page.

Our traffic has gone up significantly in the last month, from an average of 1500 pages served a day a couple of months ago, to an average of 17146 pages served a day this month - but that doesn't strike me as a particularly huge amount of traffic compared to many sites.

The only problem we've been able to identify (I've been having a more knowledgable friend help out a lot, thank goodness) is that there were a huge number of Private Messages being held in the system. Apparently a lot of people had set the notification to PM them every time there was a post on the forums, back when the site was quiet, then not come back for a couple of months. Some users found 13,000 messages waiting for them. We've asked the web host if they can delete the bulk of the PMs from the database, and have turned off the notification options.

Do you think the massive number of PMs in the database could have been slowing MySQL down? Or do you think we have a problem in the forum module somewhere?

Or do you have any other suggestions or thoughts?

I was using version 1. I just upgraded to version 2 in order to get the IP addresses, but now I'm having a different set of problems as none of the users appear to be able to access the forum (to read or post), even though I've gone through setting the permissions on the forums.

Hi all,

I'm helping moderate a forum, which is running NewBB. We've just had a poster arrive who is posting abusive crap, and I want to ban them, as well as inform their ISP as they have caused trouble on mailing lists before. But the forum isn't recording their IP address.

Can anyone tell me what I can do to get NewBB to show IPs on posts (to moderators, or administrators)?

Or should I use a different forum, and if so, which do you suggest (and can I migrate posts over to it)?

Thanks for any help.

Thank you kindly... the hard return between the images doesn't seem to be working, so if anyone else has any hints on how to change that, I'd be glad to hear them.

Thanks again!

Hi all,

I'm working on a site using Xoops, and at the moment just using the Sections module that comes with the standard download.

Can anyone tell me what file to modify to change the bit where it says "Here you can find some cool articles that are not presented on the homepage", and to put a hard return between the images?

http://www.phantomoftheopera.com/modules/sections/

Or should I just install a better sections module...?

Thanks for any help,
Christine

Does anyone know where I could find some sets of images for dark backgrounds, for use in the Forums module, etc? My site has a black background, and most of the icon graphics look okay or are easily cleaned up, but the Forum ones look lousy.

Does anyone know where I could find some XOOPS forum icons for dark backgrounds?

Thanks!